Event
- Event ID
- 27
- Quality
- Description
- Damage of shipping containers of a ship, due to the reaction of phosphor pentoxide with wine, which lead to the production of phosphoric acid and hydrogen. The overpressure was successfully eliminated by ventilating the storage space.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Leak No Ignition (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Ship Container
- How was it involved?
- Internal Explosion (Hp Explosion)
- Initiating cause
- Run-Away Reaction
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The INITIATING CAUSE was a chemical reaction having hydrogen as product, which ignited.
The ROOT CAUSE could be tentatively assigned to an inadequate risk assessment, able to identify this accidental scenario.
Facility
- Application
- Non-Road Vehicles
- Sub-application
- Marine Application
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Storage (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- high pressure spherical vessel, leakage along the weld
- Location type
- Unknown
- Location description
- Harbour Or Waterborne
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Emergency action
- Rescue units were on site but they did not make an attempt to extinguish the fire to avoid the formation of a hydrogen cloud. The affected unit was depressurised. After 50 minute the leak was closed and the fire extinguished. Shortly afterward the alarm was terminated.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
Kier and Müller, 1983; A.M. Kreiser, G. Fröhlich, H. Eichert, A.Schatz, IKE Universität Stuttgart ISSN 0173-6892, April 1994Analyse von Störfällen mit Wasserstoff in bisherigen Anwendungsbereichen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von LH2
Bockholts and Koehorst, 1992
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- Scientific article
